Re: [FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

[Alfredo Covaleda Vélez]

Creo que esto les va a resultar interesante

5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/




On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Nick Thompson 
wrote:

> Hi, everybody,
>
>
>
> I have a granddaughter on vacation who is showing some interest in maths.
> We have been fooling around with graph paper, you know, “the squaw upon the
> hippopotamus is equal to the suns of the squaw’s on the other two hides”,
> etc., and playing race track on graph paper (which didn’t grab her (used
> squares that were too small) but that’s about all I have in my repertoire.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions for really nifty stuff on the web (or that I could learn
> from the web quick enough) for 9 year olds.  I;ve been told that early
> childhood is the best time to teach calculus, but not by anybody who
> actually knew how to do it.  She is quick on a computer.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
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Re: [FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Russ, 

I appreciate the help. 

Myself, I never got the "primary directive" of the calculus, or whatever it
is called (that integration is the inverse of differentiation) until I
graphed it.  

I hope you are well, 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:15:25PM -0600, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Hi, everybody,
> 
>  
> 
> I have a granddaughter on vacation who is showing some interest in maths.
> We have been fooling around with graph paper, you know, "the squaw 
> upon the hippopotamus is equal to the suns of the squaw's on the other 
> two hides", etc., and playing race track on graph paper (which didn't 
> grab her (used squares that were too small) but that's about all I have in
my repertoire.
> 
>  
> 
> Any suggestions for really nifty stuff on the web (or that I could 
> learn from the web quick enough) for 9 year olds.  I;ve been told that 
> early childhood is the best time to teach calculus, but not by anybody 
> who actually knew how to do it.  She is quick on a computer.
> 

Not sure about the web, but you would need to get in algebra first. A bright
9yo should easily be able to handle the concept that letters can stand
abstractly for a number. Lack of algebra prevent the ancient Greeks from
getting calculus. I'd avoid trig, though, it's not necessary for getting the
concepts of differentiation and integration (unless Norm Wildberger's
approach helps?).

Then once you have algebra to hand, you need to teach the concept of limits.
eg If x->0 and y->0 twice as fast, what is the limit of y/x?
The answer is 1/2, not 0/0.

With limits and algebra on hand, you can tackle differentiation and
integration of polynomial functions. If she's any good at computer
programming (eg perhaps using Scratch or Alice*), then get her to write a
program printing out the value of something like (x+1)/x as
x->infinity. Its a really good way (IMHO) of grokking limits. Then you
can write a program to estimate the area of some random shape by tiling it
with rectangles and then letting the tile size go to zero. That will give an
excellent introduction to integration.

* It might be possible to use a spreadsheet for this as well, with the
  added advantage of being easily able to graph the results.

Cheers



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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[glen]

On 03/29/2016 04:16 PM, Robert Wall wrote:

Following on to Dave's thoughts on the relationship between anonymity and 
freedom to express non-conforming opinions or behaviors, we can liken those 
vehicles with totally blackened windows that allow some of their drivers to 
have their basic, innate rudeness travel with them with impunity and anonymity. 
 [For anecdotal evidence of this psychological phenomenon see for example this 
study at 
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/ptacc/anonymity-driving-behavior.pptx]



According to Zhong & others (2010), "Even dimmed lighting or wearing sunglasses 
increases people’s perceived anonymity, and thus their willingness to cheat or behave 
selfishly."


I've always hated sunglasses and been suspicious of people who wear them.  I've 
never really known why.  Growing up in Texas meant lots and lots of my friends 
wore them almost any time they went outside.  I always thought it had something 
to do with intimacy.  I just had a sense that sunglass wearers were 
narcissistic somehow, like making eye contact was irritating to them.  Of 
course, this is all conflated with the idea that some people are sensitive to 
light, some wore prescription sunglasses, some were too lazy to take them off 
when going inside or into the shade, those trying to hide blood-shot eyes, etc. 
 Anyway, I had to look up the article:

   Good lamps are the best police: darkness increases dishonesty and 
self-interested behavior.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20424061
   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301122344.htm

I had a similar (but milder, I think) sense for tea-totallers, people who _conspicuously_ 
refuse to drink alcohol.  I feel like I got this from my dad's side of the family 
(Prussian descendants) ... and it may be related to the sunglasses thing, since, when 
they make a toast, it's imperative to make eye contact while drinking, as well as not 
putting the drink down without taking a drink after a toast.  Either transgression was 
fairly serious.  They simply didn't trust you if you put your drink down without drinking 
or if yo8u fail to make eye contact during a toast.  If you made some polite excuse for 
not having an alcoholic drink (like your prescriptions or your spouse will get mad at 
you), it was (merely) adequate to toast with other liquids.  But if you _asserted_ 
something like "I don't drink" or something anti-social like that, you were not 
(merely) untrustworthy.  You became (and usually stayed) an outsider.

Again, though, it's all about the subjective estimate of consequences.  People 
who don't care about or understand those consequences, don't feel any pressure 
to conform.

--
⇔ glen


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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[glen]

Interesting!  The common thread in both your responses seems to lie in 
consideration of consequences.  The contradiction between Dave's suggestion 
that pressure to conform might disappear when with strangers (which we see on 
the internet in spades) and Steve's (and the article's) idea that a particular 
_type_ of stranger might up regulate conformity can be resolved by considering 
the actor's estimate of the _consequences_ of their actions.  Like this comment 
on the article's page:

bjdon99 commented:

Freedom to speak also comes with the freedom to listen. If you write something 
outrageous, you should be prepared for the consequences when others read it.


As before, perhaps different people (or demographics, or generations) will 
exhibit differences in the way they understand the consequences of their 
actions.  If it's arbitrary Facebook yahoos who are surveilling me, then I 
simply don't care about the consequences.  But if it's prospective employers 
who are surveilling me, then I do care.  Likewise, if it's someone who is 
likely to throw me in jail for my actions, then I do care.

So, it's not quite so clear to me that "mass surveillance" is in any way causative, in up 
or down regulation.  The real question is "What does 'mass surveillance' mean to you?"


On 03/29/2016 02:25 PM, Prof David West wrote:

Awareness of being observed by peers and your social group absolutely
inhibits the expression of non-conforming behavior. Anyone who has lived
in a small town – where everybody knows everybody else and where
individual behavior is observed by so many others who can report that
behavior to parents or friends —knows the forces that inhibit
non-conforming behavior.

[...]

The real question is whether or not mass surveillance by the government
has the same effect. I would really doubt it - despite the Washington
Post report. I would expect to see similar kinds of self-censorship
among "friends" in social media, but not among "strangers" in that same
context. In fact I would expect that "strangers" would exhibit extreme
non-conforming, antisocial, behavior.


On 03/29/2016 03:28 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

I think that Mass Surveillance (caps or not) is crafted (among other things) *to* silence 
many voices, but as you so aptly point out, it depends on our ability to be intimidated 
(if not specifically to "conform" as you suggest).

[...]

On the original topic, I know of many very well educated, well informed people (not 
unlike most of us on this list) who curb their speech in very awkward and strange ways 
out of fear that they are being "surveilled" and that one of their fairly 
benign yet counter-culture opinions or ideas will be held against them.

I agree with the idea that our willingness to conform to the corruption (of any kind) 
contributes to the problem quite directly. Too many people respond to this idea as a form 
of "blame the victim" but I think it is much more than that.


--
⇔ glen


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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[Robert Wall]

Following on to Dave's thoughts on the relationship between anonymity and
freedom to express non-conforming opinions or behaviors, we can liken those
vehicles with totally blackened windows that allow some of their drivers to
have their basic, innate rudeness travel with them with impunity and
anonymity.  [For anecdotal evidence of this psychological phenomenon see
for example this study at
http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/ptacc/anonymity-driving-behavior.pptx
]

Back in February, the *New York Times* carried an article

titled
"Social Media: Destroyer or Creator."  In the article, Wael Ghonim--the one
who is credited with starting the Arab Spring by way of
Facebook--characterizes the aspect of having the ability on the Internet to
respond to thoughts with our baser instincts only a click away this way: "My
online world became a battleground filled with trolls, lies, hate speech."
 [See
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/opinion/social-media-destroyer-or-creator.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0
]

As Ghonim reveals in a subsequent TED Talk
,
once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to
messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media followed suit. What
was once a place for crowdsourcing, engaging and sharing became a polarized
battleground. Ghonim asks: What can we do about online behavior now? How
can we use the Internet and social media to create civility and reasoned
argument?  [See TED Talk at
https://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_let_s_design_social_media_that_drives_real_change#t-798505
]

Like Dave, I doubt that having the Government watching--they already do a
lot of this now--would have any effect on civil behavior anywhere because
mass surveillance by a government doesn't really exert any peer, parent, or
pal pressure.  Just strangers watching strangers doing ... and just my
$0.02.

Robert

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Prof David West 
wrote:

> Awareness of being observed by peers and your social group absolutely
> inhibits the expression of non-conforming behavior. Anyone who has lived
> in a small town  – where everybody knows everybody else and where
> individual behavior is observed by so many others who can report that
> behavior to parents or friends —knows the forces that inhibit
> non-conforming behavior.
>
> There are numerous anthropological case studies (e.g. the "sexual
> revolution" in the US brought about by the automobile, the breakdown of
> marriage patterns among the Sami due to the snowmobile) that show the
> relationship between anonymity and freedom to express non-conforming
> opinions and behaviors.
>
> The real question is whether or not mass surveillance by the government
> has the same effect. I would really doubt it - despite the Washington
> Post report. I would expect to see similar kinds of self-censorship
> among "friends" in social media, but not among "strangers" in that same
> context. In fact I would expect that "strangers" would exhibit extreme
> non-conforming, antisocial, behavior.
>
> davew
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 12:55 PM, glen wrote:
> > On 03/29/2016 11:05 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> > > Thought you guys would be interested in this:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/
> >
> > Is it right to say that mass surveillance _causes_ the silencing?  It
> > seems to me that our tendency to conform is the cause.  Then the cause[s]
> > of that tendency [is|are] probably occult, where some will yap about
> > things like group selection and others about ontogeny (education,
> > demographics, etc).  I assume that various generations vary in their
> > tendency to conform.  (We just watched Experimenter the other night:
> > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 , which suggests
> > it's robust across lots of conditions.)  So, perhaps the relationship
> > between (recognition of) mass surveillance and self-censorship is simply
> > a symptom of a deeper cause.
> >
> > --
> > ⇔ glen
> >
> > 
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Re: [FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

[Russell Standish]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:15:25PM -0600, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Hi, everybody, 
> 
>  
> 
> I have a granddaughter on vacation who is showing some interest in maths.
> We have been fooling around with graph paper, you know, "the squaw upon the
> hippopotamus is equal to the suns of the squaw's on the other two hides",
> etc., and playing race track on graph paper (which didn't grab her (used
> squares that were too small) but that's about all I have in my repertoire.  
> 
>  
> 
> Any suggestions for really nifty stuff on the web (or that I could learn
> from the web quick enough) for 9 year olds.  I;ve been told that early
> childhood is the best time to teach calculus, but not by anybody who
> actually knew how to do it.  She is quick on a computer.  
> 

Not sure about the web, but you would need to get in algebra first. A
bright 9yo should easily be able to handle the concept that letters
can stand abstractly for a number. Lack of algebra prevent the ancient
Greeks from getting calculus. I'd avoid trig, though, it's not
necessary for getting the concepts of differentiation and integration
(unless Norm Wildberger's approach helps?).

Then once you have algebra to hand, you need to teach the concept of
limits. eg If x->0 and y->0 twice as fast, what is the limit of y/x?
The answer is 1/2, not 0/0.

With limits and algebra on hand, you can tackle differentiation and
integration of polynomial functions. If she's any good at computer
programming (eg perhaps using Scratch or Alice*), then get her to
write a program printing out the value of something like (x+1)/x as
x->infinity. Its a really good way (IMHO) of grokking limits. Then you
can write a program to estimate the area of some random shape by
tiling it with rectangles and then letting the tile size go to
zero. That will give an excellent introduction to integration.

* It might be possible to use a spreadsheet for this as well, with the
  added advantage of being easily able to graph the results.

Cheers



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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[Steve Smith]

Glen -

As usual, I like the way you think, even if I might not agree with you!

I think that Mass Surveillance (caps or not) is crafted (among other 
things) *to*  silence many voices, but as you so aptly point out, it 
depends on our ability to be intimidated (if not specifically to 
"conform" as you suggest).


I have friends/colleagues in Ukraine who state boldly that "they" 
collectively eliminated bribery by collectively refusing to give 
bribes... that it took about a year of a mass uprising of people who 
simply accepted that they could not get much if anything done in the 
government bureaucracy for about a year while they starved out the 
officials who were thriving on bribery.


On the original topic, I know of many very well educated, well informed 
people (not unlike most of us on this list) who curb their speech in 
very awkward and strange ways out of fear that they are being 
"surveilled" and that one of their fairly benign yet counter-culture 
opinions or ideas will be held against them.


I agree with the idea that our willingness to conform to the corruption 
(of any kind) contributes to the problem quite directly.   Too many 
people respond to this idea as a form of "blame the victim" but I think 
it is much more than that.


Carry on,
 - Steve



On 03/29/2016 11:05 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Thought you guys would be interested in this: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/


Is it right to say that mass surveillance _causes_ the silencing? It 
seems to me that our tendency to conform is the cause.  Then the 
cause[s] of that tendency [is|are] probably occult, where some will 
yap about things like group selection and others about ontogeny 
(education, demographics, etc).  I assume that various generations 
vary in their tendency to conform.  (We just watched Experimenter the 
other night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 , 
which suggests it's robust across lots of conditions.)  So, perhaps 
the relationship between (recognition of) mass surveillance and 
self-censorship is simply a symptom of a deeper cause.






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[FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

[Nick Thompson]

Hi, everybody, 

 

I have a granddaughter on vacation who is showing some interest in maths.
We have been fooling around with graph paper, you know, "the squaw upon the
hippopotamus is equal to the suns of the squaw's on the other two hides",
etc., and playing race track on graph paper (which didn't grab her (used
squares that were too small) but that's about all I have in my repertoire.  

 

Any suggestions for really nifty stuff on the web (or that I could learn
from the web quick enough) for 9 year olds.  I;ve been told that early
childhood is the best time to teach calculus, but not by anybody who
actually knew how to do it.  She is quick on a computer.  

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 


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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[Prof David West]

Awareness of being observed by peers and your social group absolutely
inhibits the expression of non-conforming behavior. Anyone who has lived
in a small town  – where everybody knows everybody else and where
individual behavior is observed by so many others who can report that
behavior to parents or friends —knows the forces that inhibit
non-conforming behavior.

There are numerous anthropological case studies (e.g. the "sexual
revolution" in the US brought about by the automobile, the breakdown of
marriage patterns among the Sami due to the snowmobile) that show the
relationship between anonymity and freedom to express non-conforming
opinions and behaviors.

The real question is whether or not mass surveillance by the government
has the same effect. I would really doubt it - despite the Washington
Post report. I would expect to see similar kinds of self-censorship
among "friends" in social media, but not among "strangers" in that same
context. In fact I would expect that "strangers" would exhibit extreme
non-conforming, antisocial, behavior.

davew

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, at 12:55 PM, glen wrote:
> On 03/29/2016 11:05 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> > Thought you guys would be interested in this: 
> > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/
> 
> Is it right to say that mass surveillance _causes_ the silencing?  It
> seems to me that our tendency to conform is the cause.  Then the cause[s]
> of that tendency [is|are] probably occult, where some will yap about
> things like group selection and others about ontogeny (education,
> demographics, etc).  I assume that various generations vary in their
> tendency to conform.  (We just watched Experimenter the other night:
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 , which suggests
> it's robust across lots of conditions.)  So, perhaps the relationship
> between (recognition of) mass surveillance and self-censorship is simply
> a symptom of a deeper cause.
> 
> -- 
> ⇔ glen
> 
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

[Frank Wimberly]

They told us at Carnegie when I was a freshman that the purpose of our
education was not to get a job.  That was in 1961; perhaps times have
changed.

As you know, my grandson went to Emerson and didn't like it.

Frank

Frank Wimberly
Phone
(505) 670-9918
On Mar 29, 2016 3:12 PM, "Edward Angel"  wrote:

> Relevant to what? Certainly not to becoming a film editor.
>
> He probably got good advice at the Filmmakers Institute. I have a couple
> of close friends whose children married aspiring film editors and writers.
> The great education my friends' children got at the best universities went
> to supporting their spouses' attempts to make it in the film industry; so
> far all have been unsuccessful. Hundreds of schools have created film
> programs that are pouring out students who can’t even get started in the
> film industry (it’s a highly unionized business with high bars to entry).
> Unless he can get into USC or one or two other schools, the value of a
> liberal arts education probably will not translate to breaking into the
> industry. Jonathan Wacks who used to run the film program at College of
> Santa Fe and now runs the excellent program at Emerson in Boston would tell
> his students to get to CA as soon as they could if they intended to work in
> the industry.
>
> Ed
> ___
>
> Ed Angel
>
> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory
> (ARTS Lab)
> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
>
> 1017 Sierra Pinon
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
> 505-984-0136 (home)   an...@cs.unm.edu
> 505-453-4944 (cell)  http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel
>
> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Frank Wimberly  wrote:
>
> I have told some of you about my grandson, who wants to be a film editor.
> I arranged for him to meet with the undergraduate adviser in the College of
> Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon.  Among other things that man told him that he
> could get credit for certain courses at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers
> Institute.  When my grandson visited the latter organization his reaction
> was to ask what he needed Carnegie Mellon for.  I took this as lack of
> appreciation for the value of a liberal education.  I find the linked
> address by the President of Harvard to be relevant:
>
>
> http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2016/to-be-speaker-words-and-doer-deeds-literature-and-leadership
>
> Frank
> ---
> Frank Wimberly
> Phone
> (505) 670-9918
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Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

[Edward Angel]

Relevant to what? Certainly not to becoming a film editor. 

He probably got good advice at the Filmmakers Institute. I have a couple of 
close friends whose children married aspiring film editors and writers. The 
great education my friends' children got at the best universities went to 
supporting their spouses' attempts to make it in the film industry; so far all 
have been unsuccessful. Hundreds of schools have created film programs that are 
pouring out students who can’t even get started in the film industry (it’s a 
highly unionized business with high bars to entry). Unless he can get into USC 
or one or two other schools, the value of a liberal arts education probably 
will not translate to breaking into the industry. Jonathan Wacks who used to 
run the film program at College of Santa Fe and now runs the excellent program 
at Emerson in Boston would tell his students to get to CA as soon as they could 
if they intended to work in the industry.

Ed
___

Ed Angel

Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

1017 Sierra Pinon
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 

505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel 


> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Frank Wimberly  wrote:
> 
> I have told some of you about my grandson, who wants to be a film editor.  I 
> arranged for him to meet with the undergraduate adviser in the College of 
> Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon.  Among other things that man told him that he 
> could get credit for certain courses at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Institute.  
> When my grandson visited the latter organization his reaction was to ask what 
> he needed Carnegie Mellon for.  I took this as lack of appreciation for the 
> value of a liberal education.  I find the linked address by the President of 
> Harvard to be relevant:
> 
> http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2016/to-be-speaker-words-and-doer-deeds-literature-and-leadership
>  
> 
> Frank
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> Phone
> (505) 670-9918
> 
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

[glen]

It's downright Faustian!

On 03/29/2016 01:33 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:

Bragging about his "deep roots in the military" and speaking at West Point, I 
can't imagine why you would confuse this with a liberal education.  We have endless war 
and a global militarization of our governance structures.  The masters of the universe at 
Harvard, etc. are sadly implicated and what's worse--don't even recognize it.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Frank Wimberly > wrote:

I have told some of you about my grandson, who wants to be a film editor.  
I arranged for him to meet with the undergraduate adviser in the College of 
Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon.  Among other things that man told him that he 
could get credit for certain courses at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Institute.  
When my grandson visited the latter organization his reaction was to ask what 
he needed Carnegie Mellon for.  I took this as lack of appreciation for the 
value of a liberal education.  I find the linked address by the President of 
Harvard to be relevant:


http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2016/to-be-speaker-words-and-doer-deeds-literature-and-leadership


--
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Re: [FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

[Merle Lefkoff]

Bragging about his "deep roots in the military" and speaking at West Point,
I can't imagine why you would confuse this with a liberal education.  We
have endless war and a global militarization of our governance structures.
The masters of the universe at Harvard, etc. are sadly implicated and
what's worse--don't even recognize it.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Frank Wimberly  wrote:

> I have told some of you about my grandson, who wants to be a film editor.
> I arranged for him to meet with the undergraduate adviser in the College of
> Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon.  Among other things that man told him that he
> could get credit for certain courses at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers
> Institute.  When my grandson visited the latter organization his reaction
> was to ask what he needed Carnegie Mellon for.  I took this as lack of
> appreciation for the value of a liberal education.  I find the linked
> address by the President of Harvard to be relevant:
>
>
> http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2016/to-be-speaker-words-and-doer-deeds-literature-and-leadership
>
> Frank
> ---
> Frank Wimberly
> Phone
> (505) 670-9918
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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>



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President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
merlelef...@gmail.com
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[FRIAM] To Be “A Speaker of Words and a Doer of Deeds:” Literature and Leadership | Harvard University

[Frank Wimberly]

I have told some of you about my grandson, who wants to be a film editor.
I arranged for him to meet with the undergraduate adviser in the College of
Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon.  Among other things that man told him that he
could get credit for certain courses at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Institute.  When my grandson visited the latter organization his reaction
was to ask what he needed Carnegie Mellon for.  I took this as lack of
appreciation for the value of a liberal education.  I find the linked
address by the President of Harvard to be relevant:

http://www.harvard.edu/president/speech/2016/to-be-speaker-words-and-doer-deeds-literature-and-leadership

Frank
---
Frank Wimberly
Phone
(505) 670-9918

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Re: [FRIAM] mass surveillance

[glen]

On 03/29/2016 11:05 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:

Thought you guys would be interested in this: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/


Is it right to say that mass surveillance _causes_ the silencing?  It seems to 
me that our tendency to conform is the cause.  Then the cause[s] of that 
tendency [is|are] probably occult, where some will yap about things like group 
selection and others about ontogeny (education, demographics, etc).  I assume 
that various generations vary in their tendency to conform.  (We just watched 
Experimenter the other night: 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 , which suggests it's 
robust across lots of conditions.)  So, perhaps the relationship between 
(recognition of) mass surveillance and self-censorship is simply a symptom of a 
deeper cause.

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Re: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and more — NOVA Next | PBS

[Merle Lefkoff]

Thought you guys would be interested in this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Merle Lefkoff 
wrote:

>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tom Johnson 
> Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:40 PM
> Subject: [FRIAM] The virus that could cure Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and
> more — NOVA Next | PBS
> To: "Friam@redfish. com" 
> Cc: Sandra Blakeslee , Steve Ross <
> editorst...@gmail.com>, George Johnson , Bryant Furlow
> 
>
>
> Fascinating and well-written story.  While I am dubious of the phrase
> "...phages such as M13 have only one purpose: to pass on their genes,"  I
> wish we had more biologists in FRIAM to explain how this would be
> likely/possible.  Still, a good read.
>
>
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/phage-alzheimers-cure/?utm_source=facebook_medium=pbsofficial_campaign=nova_next
>
> TJ
>
> ===
> Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism
> Santa Fe, NM
> SPJ Region 9 Director
> t...@jtjohnson.com   505-473-9646
> ===
>
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>
> --
> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
> merlelef...@gmail.com
> mobile:  (303) 859-5609
> skype:  merle.lelfkoff2
>



-- 
Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
merlelef...@gmail.com
mobile:  (303) 859-5609
skype:  merle.lelfkoff2

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